tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post1123771670511785043..comments2015-01-23T07:43:38.394+00:00Comments on eReaderJoy: Is Apple dropping its pro customers?Eolake Stobblehousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-60726508804747238232011-08-06T20:41:19.264+01:002011-08-06T20:41:19.264+01:00Getting there.Getting there.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-87576034876504646152011-08-06T14:40:45.934+01:002011-08-06T14:40:45.934+01:00Eolake says: &quot;Thank you. Rapidweaver seems ve...Eolake says: &quot;Thank you. Rapidweaver seems very promising. though the name seems familiar, I wonder why I haven&#39;t heard more about it, like on a couple of app-comparison articles I&#39;ve read.&quot;<br /><br />You mean you haven&#39;t downloaded the demo and played with it? ;-)Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-79858019936526734842011-08-05T22:07:25.293+01:002011-08-05T22:07:25.293+01:00Thank you. Rapidweaver seems very promising. thoug...Thank you. Rapidweaver seems very promising. though the name seems familiar, I wonder why I haven&#39;t heard more about it, like on a couple of app-comparison articles I&#39;ve read. <br />It has wysiwyg editing? <br /><br />--<br />Well, I&#39;ve chose myself to go on spiritual quests rather than focus on more earthly things, so I can&#39;t complain about a few dragons. And fortunately my site is not all that demanding despite being profitable, and the schedule is flexible, so I can sleep when I best can, and such.<br />It&#39;s just very exhausting work! :-) <br /><br />I have a blog about the area:<br />http://power-of-source.blogspot.comeolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-60360757273365702292011-08-05T12:43:55.836+01:002011-08-05T12:43:55.836+01:00Bloody hell, I hope that&#39;s not as serious as i...Bloody hell, I hope that&#39;s not as serious as it sounds. Having a few of my own, I sympathise.<br /><br />Wordpress comes in two versions, one that lives online and one you download to your hard disk. It&#39;s capable of producing very swish whole web sites indeed, and, of course, blogs, but that really isn&#39;t the half of it. Worth looking into, as is RapidWeaver. If you need any more info, just ask.Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-56242601342596550332011-08-05T12:34:38.725+01:002011-08-05T12:34:38.725+01:00In the past few years I&#39;ve been locked in to-t...In the past few years I&#39;ve been locked in to-the-death combat with what I hope is the last battalion of my deepest inner demons. Not much time for non-essentials. <br /><br />I tried wordpress for a blog maybe 3-4 years ago, it didn&#39;t seem to me to be all that much more userfriendly than Blogger. That&#39;s all I know about it. <br /><br />Seems I may have to take a new look.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-32007675665434577082011-08-05T12:30:10.493+01:002011-08-05T12:30:10.493+01:00&quot;I&#39;ll look into that one you first mentio...&quot;I&#39;ll look into that one you first mentioned. &quot;<br />Not sure which one you mean there ... <br />&quot;BTW, I thought Wordpress only did blogs, not multi-page sites?&quot;<br />Eolake, where have you <i>been</i> for the past few years? Wordpress will do just about anything you can think up, probably a lot easier than you&#39;re doing it now.Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-86778040412534958482011-08-05T12:11:20.418+01:002011-08-05T12:11:20.418+01:00I&#39;ll look into that one you first mentioned.
...I&#39;ll look into that one you first mentioned. <br /><br />BTW, I thought Wordpress only did blogs, not multi-page sites?eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-49193565416222052262011-08-05T11:17:04.882+01:002011-08-05T11:17:04.882+01:00Hmm, I still don&#39;t think I&#39;m getting it. A...Hmm, I still don&#39;t think I&#39;m getting it. Also, I think maybe you&#39;re wedded to your method of doing things, which might cause some problems in the long run. What you want to do is available in a variety of applications these days, very simply, but I don&#39;t think I&#39;m really understanding what you want enough to be able to recommend any course of action. You originally said &#39;just thumbnails&#39; and I told you I could recommend something for that, but then you seemed to be saying, in effect, that what you wanted was something that would make thumbnails on entire web pages for you, and I just showed you something like that, so I&#39;m not sure where to go from here ...Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-87316415914682108602011-08-05T10:33:12.985+01:002011-08-05T10:33:12.985+01:00Maybe not. With iView, I just drag a folder of pic...Maybe not. With iView, I just drag a folder of pics onto a window, give it a target folder, and in 30 seconds it has made all the HTML pages, thumbnails, and navigation. I just need to drag it into the site and update with the name of the model and such. <br />As you guessed, that took a little work to set up because it tended to make designs which were unnecessarily complex, like Photoshop does. Nobody sells simple, because nobody buys it.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-63048210934695766532011-08-05T10:21:42.544+01:002011-08-05T10:21:42.544+01:00Eolake, if you have a look at my site on this page...Eolake, if you have a look at my site on this page http://goo.gl/93w5v you&#39;ll see an example of thumbnails that are linked to, in this case, other sites. Is that sort of thing any good to you?Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-78413156227199581232011-08-05T09:43:41.553+01:002011-08-05T09:43:41.553+01:00Sorry, Paul, I misunderstood. I was just talking a...Sorry, Paul, I misunderstood. I was just talking about the thumbnail pages, well, mostly.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-84585421364280079812011-08-04T11:16:35.303+01:002011-08-04T11:16:35.303+01:00The page.
I never progressed beyond the basic tex...The page. <br />I never progressed beyond the basic text-based page, and I never felt much urge to, seeing how many sites give you problems if just so much as change the text size.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-35807515104779542142011-08-04T11:03:06.250+01:002011-08-04T11:03:06.250+01:00Eolake said: &quot;Very simple setup, very simple&...Eolake said: &quot;Very simple setup, very simple&quot;.<br /><br />Eolake, are you talking about what you do to make just those thumbnails, or do you mean to produce the whole page? If the latter, then you&#39;re talking web design as opposed to just graphics. I&#39;m sure WordPress would handle this quite easily, although I&#39;m not a user myself. RapidWeaver would handle it with ease too.Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-44179357129389922792011-08-02T22:58:27.783+01:002011-08-02T22:58:27.783+01:00Very simple setup, very simple.
http://domai.com...Very simple setup, very simple. <br /><br />http://domai.com/<br />http://domai.com/news/2011/07july-29/<br /><br />(warning, nudity)<br /><br />Part of the site is behind a pay wall, but it&#39;s just galleries like this: http://domai.com/promotional/17marcheolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-44132076511402332832011-08-02T22:49:10.285+01:002011-08-02T22:49:10.285+01:00Eolake said: &quot;I fear the day I have to modern...Eolake said: &quot;I fear the day I have to modernize. I just know how much BS comes with such. It never works well, and even experts struggle long time with it always. And even if I use experts, then I have to deal with them and their schedule problems.&quot;<br /><br />You shouldn&#39;t fear it, you should embrace it. And do it yourself. Bruce&#39;s idea about WordPress is a good one, and makes a lot of what you&#39;re worried about routine.<br />Can you point us at a part of your work/sites that you&#39;re referring to?Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-79251352176553317552011-08-02T22:35:17.002+01:002011-08-02T22:35:17.002+01:00iPods in shadowland. It&#39;s scary, they own the ...iPods in shadowland. It&#39;s scary, they own the whole MP3 player industry, and yet the product is of little importance to them! <br /><br />I fear they will get rid of the classic, or get rid of physical buttons. They don&#39;t see to understand some people&#39;s need to operate things by feel! (In a pocket or on a bedstand while you rest). I hate the confusing iPod interface on the iPhone.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-72067666655630042272011-08-02T22:17:28.343+01:002011-08-02T22:17:28.343+01:00Thanks for the helpfulness, guys.
I fear the day...Thanks for the helpfulness, guys. <br /><br />I fear the day I have to modernize. I just know how much BS comes with such. It never works well, and even experts struggle long time with it always. And even if I use experts, then I have to deal with them and their schedule problems.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-50962624135962702202011-08-02T21:43:32.948+01:002011-08-02T21:43:32.948+01:00&quot;Adam Engst speculates (hopes?) that OS X wil...&quot;Adam Engst speculates (hopes?) that OS X will be bifurcated into an iOS-like version and a professional version&quot;<br /><br />I don&#39;t think there is enough future profits in OS X for that to happen. Even though Mac sales are doing well, I think it&#39;s clear that tablet sales are cannibalizing PC sales in general. Macs and OS X will continue to make money for Apple for a long time, but I believe their day in the sun has passed. Eventually they will move into the background where iPods are now.<br /><br />&quot;I am not sure if I want to go into the spooky modern, opague-code page which has pictures tone up and out in front of the page like ghosts. I like code I can fix if it goes wrong.&quot;<br /><br />I know what you mean by that. However, it *is* the modern thing to do. You may want to consider going ultramodern and converting your site to WordPress. Then you don&#39;t have to worry about code at all.Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-75655007838815700282011-08-02T15:51:08.890+01:002011-08-02T15:51:08.890+01:00I&#39;ve been looking at Markdown. It has far more...I&#39;ve been looking at Markdown. It has far more than I&#39;ll need, but I like the idea of universal and readable formatting. <br /><br />TextEdit is just good. <br />And beyond that I&#39;m spoiled for choice for real word processors, like Mellel and Nisus (Express or Pro). <br /><br />--<br />I am not sure if I want to go into the spooky modern, opague-code page which has pictures tone up and out in front of the page like ghosts. I like code I can fix if it goes wrong.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-17800455746595015062011-08-02T15:17:56.324+01:002011-08-02T15:17:56.324+01:00How about Apple&#39;s TextEdit? It&#39;s quite pow...How about Apple&#39;s TextEdit? It&#39;s quite powerful, don&#39;t be put off by the simple appearance. It&#39;ll do bold, italic, and all the usual things. You can make and save styles, you can have a ruler with tabs, you can do first line indent or a hanging indent, all kinds of stuff.<br />Do you know about Markdown? Conceived and written by John Gruber, it means you can write HTML pretty much as plain text, and have it converted into HTML by any application that understands it. Worth a look, and can be written AND opened in any text editor or word processor, with all styles intact. It&#39;s here: http://goo.gl/1CRG<br /><br />Still not sure how you use GoLive, without looking over your shoulder while you do it. I&#39;m fond of Freeway, and there is a &#39;lite&#39; version for not much money. It comes with a separate application called Showcase which is purely for making pages of thumbnails for the web; you can see an example on a site I designed here:<br />http://goo.gl/Zad1c<br />Any good?Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-60740757579068443132011-08-02T14:31:31.384+01:002011-08-02T14:31:31.384+01:00Possibly because of the links, both your posts had...Possibly because of the links, both your posts had been filtered out. <br /><br />I am trying out Textwrangler, I like it, though it doesn&#39;t take any formatting at all, like bold. <br /><br />I also started with Cyberstudio Golive! Hottest thing in 1998. <br />I haven&#39;t found any other app which edits in WYSIWYG mode. Not to mention which will update links by the finder hierachy when you copy a link to a different page in another folder (*without* a special big file managing the site, note. (Those got too big very fast.) <br />Not even DreamWeaver can do it, and it&#39;s far too expensive. <br /><br />GC (although version six sucks so far) will make thumbnails, and I may use it. But I don&#39;t think it will make embedded pictures with navigation. I could live without that, though, and my members would have to. It would mean the browser would scale the image so they can see it all, a good thing.eolakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07126147415891586345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-57781035686386206472011-08-02T13:10:17.454+01:002011-08-02T13:10:17.454+01:00Oops, just noticed that the post that Bruce made, ...Oops, just noticed that the post that Bruce made, much of which I was agreeing with, hasn&#39;t appeared either. I only got it as an email subscription notification, but it&#39;s not on the blog?Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-1192044424359409502011-08-02T13:08:02.990+01:002011-08-02T13:08:02.990+01:00Tried to post a comment on your Applications, Eola...Tried to post a comment on your Applications, Eolake, but it didn&#39;t appear for some reason. I was mostly just agreeing with Bruce again, but had some additional ideas. Just trying this one to see if it gets through ...Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-13291889406427806512011-08-01T19:20:12.047+01:002011-08-01T19:20:12.047+01:00For Tex-Edit Plus, take a look at TextWrangler or ...For Tex-Edit Plus, take a look at TextWrangler or it&#39;s bigger brother, BBEdit. Both are Universal.<br /><br />http://barebones.com/<br /><br />There must be a gazillion programs that will do thumbnail HTML pages. GraphicConverter will do it. I was using Galerie for a while.<br /><br />http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm<br /><br />I suspect that one reason iMedia Pro is so easy is because you spent a lot of time setting it up in the past. Whatever you change to will definitely take time to set up the way you want it.<br /><br />As far as web site creation and maintenance, I can only think of apps that are too complex or too simple for what you want. It will probably be difficult to find something that suits your current workflow.<br /><br />&quot;People should be able to use a file system&quot; does not correspond to what I see in the real world of tech support. I think that&#39;s your 20 years of experience talking. Note that 100 years ago the phrase &quot;People should be able to use a horse&quot; probably seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to say, although the Model T started production in 1908...Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485455051458949924.post-75297337962232435792011-08-01T18:45:09.717+01:002011-08-01T18:45:09.717+01:00Eolake says: &quot;People should be able to use a ...Eolake says: &quot;People should be able to use a file system! Just see how much mess it is for real users when they simply hide it, like on the iPad. &quot;<br /><br />Funny thing is—the phrase &#39;just see how much mess it is&#39; is not one that I&#39;ve come to associate with iPad use! I usually hear &#39;Intuitive&#39; and &#39;Elegant&#39; and &#39;No need to know how it works&#39;. I don&#39;t own one, by the way, I&#39;m waiting for the next model.<br /><br />Regarding your three applications ...<br /><br />&quot;Tex-Edit Plus (I use it for pure text, notes, writing, and cleaning up text (line breaks and such).&quot;<br /><br />TextWrangler, free from BareBones sofware. There are text-formatting &#39;services&#39; you can download which appear in the &#39;Services&#39; menu of any application you&#39;re running, which can do all the line-break stuff and cleaning up. If you download one of those, you could even use Apple&#39;s TextEdit, which with Lion has become rather lovely. I&#39;m not linking to the downloadable services because I don&#39;t have time at the moment and I&#39;m sure you can find them :-) If you can&#39;t though, let me know and I WILL find them and let you know.<br /><br />Eolake: &quot;Adobe Golive. (I mostly use it for page editing only, 1999-style HTML really. But when I drag links from one page to another in a different folder, it will automatically change the link so it still works. I hope to find a user-friendly replacement for Intel Macs. &quot;<br /><br />Strewth, you&#39;re scraping the bottom of the barrel here Eolake! My first web design experience was with an application called CyberStudio, by a German firm called GoLive. Adobe bought it, renamed it, spoiled it somewhat, and it&#39;s been derlict for the past ten years or so. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll have no trouble at all replacing that. I don&#39;t really know what you use it for, or I&#39;d suggest something. Come back to me on it?<br /><br />Eolake: &quot; Iview Mediapro, old version. I use it only for making very simple web thumbnail pages. Again I would like a simple and user-friendly app for this.&quot;<br /><br />I used iView for years, and very good it was too, still is. I didn&#39;t know it wouldn&#39;t work with Lion. If you just want to make thumbnails, I can think of lots of options. RapidWeaver springs to mind; although it&#39;s a fully-fledged web application, it will make, with the aid of a plugin, make lovely thumbnails with any effect you like—rounded corners, drop shadows, whatever. It&#39;d be a bit like using Photoshop just to make screenshots, but it doesn&#39;t cost much. There are probably much better solutions too; give me a while :-)Paul Bradforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389857189084741975noreply@blogger.com